{"id":65054,"date":"2026-08-16T13:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65054"},"modified":"2026-08-16T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:55:12","slug":"ingenuity-saved-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65054","title":{"rendered":"Ingenuity Saved Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Geographic is releasing a new docuseries, \u201c9\/11 Reunited,\u201d<\/a> which premieres Aug. 21 at 8 p.m. The three-part series can also be streamed in its entirety the following day on Disney+ and Hulu.<\/p>\n

The New York Post<\/a> posted an article about the series on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The article reports one of the stories that will be included in the series:<\/p>\n

When al-Qaeda terrorists struck the World Trade Center on 9\/11, six strangers found themselves trapped in an elevator in a desperate fight for survival.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the express elevator climbed to its first stop on the 67th floor, American Airlines Flight 11 plowed into the North Tower at 8:46 am, causing the elevator to shudder and free-fall down the shaft.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the passengers pushed an emergency button, but the elevator had already plummeted 15 stories before stopping near the 50th floor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a choking cloud of thick white smoke that smelled like chemicals began pouring into the cabin, panic wasn\u2019t an option \u2014 it was a death sentence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So the six men \u2014 including a window cleaner and two Port Authority officials \u2014 calmly pooled their brains and their brawn.<\/strong><\/p>\n

First, they worked together to open the stuck automatic metal doors with their hands.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But there was no exit on the other end \u2014 just a solid wall with the number \u201c50\u201d stenciled on it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then, a burst of MacGyver-level ingenuity from someone always on the outside looking in at the WTC.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Window cleaner\u00a0and Polish immigrant Jan\u00a0Demczur<\/a>\u00a0quickly whipped out the brass squeegee from\u00a0the bucket by his feet and began frantically pecking at layers of drywall in a circular motion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of the others worked in tandem, punching and kicking the drywall until there was a hole large enough for everyone to crawl out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They landed in a men\u2019s bathroom, where they met firefighters imploring them to leave.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am looking forward to watching the docuseries. The stories of survival on that day are amazing and encouraging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Geographic is releasing a new docuseries, \u201c9\/11 Reunited,\u201d which premieres Aug. 21 at 8 p.m. The three-part series can also be streamed in its entirety the following day on Disney+ and Hulu. The New York Post posted an article … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9401,19967,7681,8321],"class_list":["post-65054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-9401","tag-docuseries","tag-national-geographic","tag-the-new-york-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65055,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65054\/revisions\/65055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}